To renounce liberty is to renounce being…

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man’s nature to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

Quote, saying and phrase by: Jean Jacques Rousseau

To regard the imagination as metaphysics…

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

Quote, saying and phrase by: W. Somerset Maugham